Anne Rice Quotes

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It's cool to play a vampire.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.

You can't trust a vampire, trust me

If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

I'm really kind of a vampire at heart.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.